Canadian writer/director
Jason Buxton’s Blackbird, his award-winning tale of community group-think and societal
mob action against an outcast teen named Sean (Connor Jessup — best known as
Simon in the Saddle Club television series) will be making its DVD debut on
Oct. 7 courtesy of Breaking Glass Pictures.
Filmed in Nova Scotia,
Sean is something of an outcast — not part of the hockey clique — goth-like in
his appearance, but bus-riding friends with Deanna (Alexia Fast), who just
happens to have a boyfriend on the hockey team. The slide into hell begins with this simple
relationship … they are just friends who ride on the same bus home in the
afternoon.
When her boyfriend begins
to think that there’s more going on between Sean and Deanna he springs into action
and gives him a few of his best hockey moves that involve wall-slamming and
threats. That’s the escalation.
Next, a well-meaning
teacher councils Sean to channel his feelings (anger, hurt, etc.) into writing
about how he feels. He does … and it
takes the form of a fantasy revenge tale that smacks of the next
Columbine. A private writing meant to
channel and release anger. What could
go wrong with that?
Once his writings go
viral the authorities scoop him up. His
father, like most in rural Nova Scotia, has a gun collection, so Sean is
guilty, guilty, guilty of planning a school massacre despite all of his
statements to the contrary.
Throw in some bad legal
advise and it’s off to Waterville, the local “reform” school for real
criminals. Sean has entered hell … a
beating by the hockey team is starting to look pretty nice about now!
From bullied outcast to
Waterville criminal with nothing more that some words scribbled in a notebook,
but the whole community can now breathe a collective sigh of relief.
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